True, Blair was talking about the notorious and newly-recovered video, not the aerial surveillance shots of Ford peeing on a tree while meeting pal Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, an alleged drug dealer.

(Please, no jokes about the long lens.)

But the chief says the (formerly alleged) video does not show the mayor doing anything to warrant charges against him. In other words, if he was smoking a crack pipe, as reported, there’s no way to prove there was crack in it.

He was photographed purchasing such contraband during those bizarre snack shop meetings with the mayor.

If I recall my college days, I know what the chips were for.

I can’t find anything in city bylaws or the Criminal Code that covers Gatorade. A 20-ounce bottle contains nine teaspoons of sugar, not conducive to weight loss, but that ship sailed on the mayor ages ago.

Rob was seen making a chewing gum transaction, but as long as he didn’t spit the gum on the sidewalk, he’s in the clear there, too.

Other than confirmation of the video, there’s little in scores of released documents that we didn’t already know or surmise. To me, the most troubling item was one of Lisi’s many handoffs to the mayor — while Ford had a toddler in tow. If, and I mean if, anything nefarious was going on, why expose the kid?

But it’s unsettling to think cops went to all that trouble over Lisi, a petty accused drug dealer, and spent so much time and money tailing Ford. I don’t know about you, but I’ll never look at a passing Cessna the same way.

What did they prove? The mayor hangs with an unsavoury crowd. The mayor is 75% buffoon. The mayor is a party animal. Are you as shocked as I am?

For instance, after a park meeting with Lisi, the two left behind empty bottles of vodka and grape juice.

If the cops were doing their job, they’d have busted them for littering. First offence $130 — and try to explain THAT to the media hounds.

Seriously, what a horror show. How appropriate it plays out on Halloween, and during a Toronto Zoo board meeting at City Hall.

We shiver with thrill at the very thought of police spying on the mayor with such vigour, but the hoard of released court documents is hardly gruesome, other than the mayor peeing.

Ford emerged from his office long enough Thursday to insist he’ll not quit. Say what you like about the guy, but he just won’t let go. He’s the snapping turtle of civic politics.

So we’re back to the infamous video, reclaimed from a hard drive seized by police.

And you thought it didn’t exist? I bet Mr. Lisi, the mayor’s colourful chum, wishes he’d never heard of it. He now faces an extortion rap, related to attempts to retrieve the video, in addition to earlier drug charges.

The Lisi case will drag out ad nauseum in court.

If police do not charge Rob Ford with public urination or littering, the mayor faces a different court.

True, Blair was talking about the notorious and newly recovered crack video, not the aerial surveillance shots of Ford peeing on a tree while meeting pal Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, an alleged drug dealer.

(Please, no jokes about the long lens.)

But the chief says the (formerly alleged) crack video does not show the mayor doing anything to warrant charges against him. In other words, if he was smoking a crack pipe, as reported, there’s no way to prove there was crack in it.